Big Data – Challenges and opportunities from a new environment for competition law and policy

16 dicembre 2016
16 Dicembre 2016

Ore 8.45
Luogo: Dipartimento di Economia e Management - Aula 3C 

Relatore:

  • Antonio Capobianco (OECD Competition Division – Paris)

Big data is an important phenomenon injecting transformative effects into social and economic relationships. Consumers, firms and machines produce unprecedented amounts of data collected, stored and analysed by leveraging the synergic capabilities of mathematics, computer science and the Internet. Firms in an array of industries are increasingly using computer algorithms and big quantities of data to handle problems of analysis and prediction, from market intelligence to strategic management and automated decision-making. With the full advent of the Internet of Things, even more data will be observed about, and inferred from, individuals’ everyday activities and habits. Acknowledging the growing potential for big data to have an immediate and direct impact on a broad range of human interactions, conversations within the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and other policy circles are increasingly focusing on how this phenomenon should factor into the competition policy framework itself. 

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